Moxon's mechanick exercises, volume 1 (of 2) : $b The doctrine of handy-works applied to the art of printingMoxon, Joseph
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Moxon's mechanick exercises, volume 1 (of 2) : $b The doctrine of handy-works applied to the art of printing
Moxon, Joseph
Printing -- Early works to 1800
Note, that the square _Hole_ made in the _Bottom-Plate_ to receive the
square _Shanck_ of the _Pin_, must be made a little wider than just to
fit the square _Shanck_ of the _Pin_, because the _Mouth-piece_ must be
so placed, that the end of the _Jaw_ next the _Throat_ must lie just
even with the _Body_ it is to be joyned to; and also that the _Throat_
of the _Mouth-piece_ may be thrust perfectly close to the Sides of the
_Carriage_ and _Body_: And when Occasion requires the _Shanck_ of the
Letter to be lengthned, it may be set farther off the _Carriage_, that
an _Asidue_, or sometimes a thin _Plate_ of _Brass_ may be fitted in
between the _Carriage_ and the _Throat_ of the _Mouth-piece_, as shall
farther be shewed when I come to justifie the _Mold_.
¶. 7. _Of the_ Register.
Behind the _Mold_ is placed the _Register_, as at _f i h_, which I have
also placed apart in the aforesaid Plate, as at C, that it may the more
perspicuously be discerned, and a more particular account of its parts
be given, which are as follows:
C _a a b c d e_ The _Register_.
_a a_ The _Sholders_.
_b c_ The _Neck_.
_d_ The _Cheek_ returning square from the Plate of the
_Register_, and is about an _English_ thick.
_e_ The _Screw Hole_.
It is made of an _Iron_ Plate about a _Brevier_ thick; its upper-Side
is straight, but its under Side is not: For at _a a_ projects downwards
a small piece of the same Plate, which we may call the _Sholders_,
of the Form you see in the Figure. These _Sholders_ have two small
_Notches_ (as at _b c_) filed in them below the _Range_ on the under
side of the _Register_, which we will call the _Neck_, and is just so
wide as the _Bottom-Plate_ is thick. This _Neck_ is set into a square
_Notch_, filed so far into the _Bottom-Plate_, that the flat inside of
the _Register_ may stand close against the hind side of the _Carriage_
and _Body_; and this _Notch_ is filed so wide on the left-Hand, that
when the side _b_ of the _Neck_ stands close against the left-hand
Side of this _Notch_ (as it is posited in the Figure) the _Cheek_ of
the _Register_ stands just even with the Edge of the _Body_. And this
_Notch_ is also filed so wide on the right-Hand Side, that when the
_Neck_ at _c_ stands close against the right-hand Side of the _Notch_,
the _Cheek_ of the _Register_ may remove an m, or an m and an n from
the edge of the _Body_ towards the right hand: And the _Sholders a a_
are made so long, that when either Side of the _Neck_ is thrust close
against its corresponding side in the _Notch_ of the _Bottom-Plate_,
the upper Edge of the opposite _Sholder_ shall hook or bear against the
under-side of the _Bottom-Plate_, and keep the whole _Register_ steady,
and directly upright to the Surface of the _Bottom-Plate_.
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